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The impatient : a novel
- Title
- The impatient : a novel / Djaïli Amadou Amal ; translated from the French by Emma Ramadan.
- Author
- Amadou Amal, Djaïli
- Publication
- New York, NY : HarperVia, an imprint of HarperCollins Publishers, 2022.
- ©2022
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| Status | Format | Access | Call Number | Item Location |
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Available - Can be used on site. Please visit New York Public Library - Schomburg Center to submit a request in person. | Text | Use in library | Sc D 23-154 | Schomburg Center - Research & Reference |
Details
- Additional Authors
- Ramadan, Emma
- Description
- 162 pages; 22 cm
- Summary
- "Winner of the 2019 Orange Book Prize, The Impatients is a powerful novel about three women living in Cameroon who have grown impatient with the unrelenting oppression-patriarchy, polygamy, and the perpetual cry for patience-that dominates their lives"--
- Uniform Title
- Impatientes. English
- Alternative Title
- Impatientes.
- Subject
- Forced marriage > Islamic countries > Fiction
- Women > Africa > Social conditions > Fiction
- Polygamy > Religious aspects > Islam > Fiction
- Women > Abuse of > Fiction
- Forced marriage
- Polygamy > Religious aspects > Islam
- Social conditions
- Women > Abuse of
- Women > Social conditions
- Marriage
- Living arrangements
- Women
- Gender identity
- Polygamy
- Sexual relationships
- Partner preference
- Cameroon > Social conditions > Fiction
- Africa
- Cameroon
- Islamic countries
- Genre/Form
- Fiction.
- Novels.
- Note
- "Originally published as Les Impatientes in France in 2020 by Éditions Emmanuelle Collas."--Title page verso.
- Awards (note)
- Orange Foundation's Orange Book Prize in Africa, 2019.
- Call Number
- Sc D 23-154
- ISBN
- 9780063141629
- 0063141620
- LCCN
- 2022001800
- OCLC
- 1346674202
- Author
- Amadou Amal, Djaïli, author.
- Title
- The impatient : a novel / Djaïli Amadou Amal ; translated from the French by Emma Ramadan.
- Publisher
- New York, NY : HarperVia, an imprint of HarperCollins Publishers, 2022.
- Copyright Date
- ©2022
- Edition
- First HarperVia edition.
- Type of Content
- text
- Type of Medium
- unmediated
- Type of Carrier
- volume
- Awards
- Orange Foundation's Orange Book Prize in Africa, 2019.
- Local Note
- Schomburg copy with dust jacket.
- Added Author
- Ramadan, Emma, translator.
- Research Call Number
- Sc D 23-154